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273: 267: 72:. in 1985. Her thesis was titled “Interactive Fiction: The Computer Storygame Adventure”; she felt strongly that these games would change our relationship to computers. Her dissertation board had members dead set against such a frivolous subject; she fought them the whole way, and now her thesis is very often cited in academic works on video games. As of 2006, she works as a massage therapist in 64:
about interactive fiction as literature in 1987, which was based on her dissertation. In it, she discusses how interactive fiction games such as Adventure can have deeper meanings for players, partially because they are responsible for making the choices, and partially because unlike linear printed
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Buckles left academia after completing her dissertation in 1985, writing one article for
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texts, the number of possible variations on the "story" are quite large.
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to research and speculate about the emotional and cultural impact of
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and was interviewed for the interactive fiction documentary,
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of Mary Ann Buckles interviewed by Jason Scott for Get Lamp
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Interactive Fiction
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University of California at San Diego
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GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary



"2 Decades Later; Let Down by Academia, Game Pioneer"


"Byte Magazine Volume 12 Number 05: Desktop Publishing and Internal Modems"
"Women's contributions to text adventures • Neperos"
"Accidental traveler in a brave new world"
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